TAPPS Hurdle Star Lauren Lowe Falls Down But Gets Back Up

Mar 25, 2018

-Amended 3/25/18 2:07 p.m.

So, if you didn't know Lauren Lowe heading into this weekend, you should know her now and if still you don't know her by know, then check this out.

The Houston St. Agnes Academy hurdler is fresh off of her 2017 TAPPS state titles in both hurdle events.

Coming into this weekend, Lowe was one of the favorites in both hurdle events at the Victor Lopez Classic.

Her 2018 season has been one of confidence and success. So, you would expect her to be in the finals of the 100H and the 300H, and she was. However, it didn't happen the traditional way or as many would have expected.

Lowe was trying to get over the fact that last year, she fell in the 300H. "Last year, I had fallen over the second hurdle." So, this year, she was hoping to get past that and run into the finals. Well that did happen, but it was another hurdle that would catch her up and bring her tumbling down. Lowe would get caught up on the way down over the fourth hurdle and just like last year, she would go down. "I knew my form wasn't right, and the next thing I know, I was on the ground."

However, Lowe had plans and those plans were to get to the 300H finals this year. Last year's fall prohibited a chance at the finals, but this year, although the fourth hurdle would result in another fall, Lowe would get back up. Determined not to miss out on the finals of her favorite race, she would show the determination and fortitude that champions are made of. "I just gotta win the race, so I just got back up and kept running."

Not only, did Lowe get back up, but she ran and ran really hard and fast. Lowe had put in the work early in the race and she had a big lead when she fell. She would lose the lead on the fall, but she would battle back and retake the lead, ultimately running fast enough to qualify for the 300H finals.

Through all of that, Lowe was not able to win her personal favorite 300H finals, but she did pull off the 100H finals, but that's not the point. When we are taught that winning is the point of sports, there are more life lessons that sports is metaphorically good for. The point of this is that this young lady could have packed it in and given up. Falling in the same race, at the same meet, on the same track would be plenty of a reason for giving up. However, she took the hard fall and absorbed the hit of the Rice University track and achieved her goal of qualifying for the finals.

Big props should go Lowe's way for having the heart of a lion, the determination of a champion, and for displaying what we should all be using sports for -- and that is how to deal with adversity.